Okay, I’m back.
In some fashion.
I’ve read, I’ve pondered, I’ve experimented, and will continue to do all three.
I’m clear enough now on a great many things that were worrying me about our profession and its future that my anxiety is at a manageable level.
I hope you’re all doing amazing 🍃
I am having trouble with anxiety and I attribute some of it to social media, so I’m going to log off for a while and try to reset.
If anybody needs or wants to talk, my email address is on my website or you can DM me on the various Slacks we all hang out on.
Be well, folks 🌻
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If you’re finding joy or amusement in other folks discomfort, guess what? You might be the problem.
I’ve lost a north star here, and it’s heartbreaking because there’s no real way for them to turn this around for a very long time.
I have spent my career leaning on Apple’s excellent design chops when building my own apps.
Now they’ve broken the design language of their operating systems so badly that it’s not possible to build excellent, bug free user experiences.
The spacing and padding also seems to be “best efforts” (check the device icons).
I want to be kind, but this design and experience feels like a lot of “good enough, ship it”.
Image of Apple’s App Store app on macOS showing the Creator Studio package page.
The attention to detail in Apple’s App Store app is just… not there. I draw your attention to the “Available on” subtitles below each app in the grid — they’re inconsistently truncated, some not even indicating that they *are* truncated.
Thank you 🫶🏻
@aeronautapp.com would you consider adding keyboard shortcuts for the tabs in your app? I’m used to spamming ⌘1, ⌘2, etc to shift between the tabs in my social media apps.
Hit me up when you get a break from client work — I’m happy to chat more and show you the specifics if it’ll help save you time/energy.
I managed mine manually for years, but then I switched to using github.com/cirruslabs/mac… (macos-tahoe-xcode:latest) and haven’t looked back.
Are you integrating with GitHub Actions?
Are you building your own images?
“People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence. If you outsource all your thinking to computers, you stop upskilling, learning, and becoming more competent” 🍺
When I hear otherwise well respected, competent developers saying that they don’t write code anymore, what my brain translates that to is “My skills are atrophying through the use of these tools, so I need you to also not write code so that this Ponzi scheme doesn’t collapse”.
Yeah like a decade ago it should have worn off by now tho
How so?
Us developers have learned the hard way that:
1. Prototyping is more like 10% of the actual work - even though the business folks thinks we're 90% done
2. Shipping prototypes to production is possible but generally a bad idea
Vibe coding is prototyping. Others will learn - soon
It can be difficult to find a clear, concise explanation of how method dispatch works in Swift, when calls are resolved statically or dynamically, and what that means for performance.
I wrote a post summarizing my learnings, with key cases and examples: nilcoalescing.com/blog/MethodD...
#SwiftLang
I mean… I don’t want to upset you, but they’re sort of everywhere. The zoo is just telling you about it 😅
Method is definitely the correct term for a function attached to a type, but the language does call them functions/func, so maybe it’s a change?
Seems so? It’s lightning fast for everything I use it for. Very slick setup.
Glorious! Thanks for sharing this, Oskar 🫶🏻
Yes, please!
Like Trump, Tim Cook doesn’t need to care about education anymore. They and the rest of the gerontocracy will be dead by the time the results of their choices are fully realized. Our system rewards sociopathy. At least it’s inspiring revolution.
Using #SwiftUI’s UIGestureRecognizerRepresentable and Anchor Preferences, you can build a ButtonStyle that is triggered by a long-press in a parent view in addition to regular taps.
This enables building custom menus like this that allow triggering an action with a single long press.
Is anyone building meaningful things yet this year? Show me the awesomeness you’ve made that you are proud of!
Software engineers of the world, I beg you.
Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.
Sincerely,
Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.
the Meta logo except it says "Maga" and the infinity brandmark is red
oh shit new logo just dropped
